This paper proposes a way of including in official statistics consumers as user innovators who modify or develop products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the definition of innovation in the OECD/Eurostat Oslo Manual and the exclusion by that definition of...

The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) have sponsored programmes on national cleaner production centres (NCPCs) since 1993, to assist emerging and transitional economies to reorganise their production activities on an environmentally sound...